New best friend: Advisers and payroll providers tie up on auto-enrolment

Advisers and payroll providers join forces on auto-enrolment

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Auto-enrolment numbers are about to surge as firms with 30 or fewer employees begin to stage. Tom Nall assesses the business opportunities for advisers and urges them to link with payroll providers

The biggest auto-enrolment spike of 2015 is due to begin next month as firms with fewer than 30 employees begin to stage in earnest. October also marks the third anniversary of auto-enrolment implementation so, at this important milestone, it's worth taking stock to see what's changed in the market. In 2013, research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) found that it took employers an average of 103 working days to prepare for auto-enrolment implementation and 3.5 days per month on an ongoing basis to maintain the scheme. This month, research from Iain Clacher...

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